Rotterdam Lab

Sophia Sim

Sophia Sim is an independent film producer from Singapore. Her first foray into the filmmaking industry was on A Land Imagined by Yeo Siew Hua (Golden Leopard Locarno, 2018). She co-produced Nelson Yeo’s short film, Dreaming (Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg, 2022), and produced Gladys Ng’s Every Floor Looks the Same (International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, 2023). Working with Jeremy Chua, she co-produced Nicole Midori Woodford’s debut feature, Last Shadow at First Light (San Sebastián Film Festival 2023). She also produced, alongside Tan Si En, Nelson Yeo’s debut feature, Dreaming and Dying (2023) which won the Locarno Film Festival Cineasti del Presents Golden Leopard Award and Swatch First Feature Award. Aside from narrative works, Sophia has also produced for artists such as Kent Chan on Heat Waves: Future Tropics (Gasworks UK, 2023) and Cécile B. Evans' Reality or Not: Render of Collectives (Lafayette Anticipations, Singapore Art Museum, 2023).

Projects in development

Other People's Dreams, dir. Daniel Hui (feature) 

The Drought, dir. Nelson Yeo (feature)

 

Projects in production / post-production

Tropical Rain, dir. Death-Scented Kiss, Charlotte Hong (feature)

Tens Across the Borders, dir. Chan Sze-wei (documentary)

Kin II, dir. Charmaine Poh (documentary short)

 

Released films 

Dreaming and Dying, dir. Nelson Yeo (feature)

Last Shadow at First Light, dir. Nicole Midori Woodford (feature) 

Every Floor Looks the Same, dir. Gladys Ng (short)

Dreaming, dir. Nelson Yeo (short)

Sophia Sim

Rotterdam Lab

Rotterdam Lab participants 2024

See the names of the emerging producers joining us for the Rotterdam Lab 2024.